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Hey, I unfortunately live in a place where it's pretty much impossible to get spores, but I want to grow Natures Goodness, so my question is: How do I go about inoculating a jar with dry mushrooms? I've been reading a lot of the teks and I think that scraping the powder from the bottom of the bag onto an agar dish might do the trick. Actually onto several dishes and then hopefully one will be succesful.I know that this is not optimal in any way, but it's the only option I seem to have (so if you're just posting to say that I can't do it, never mind ).

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well just for the sake of curiousity, what did you recommend zaz??? can u somehow isolate mycelium from a dry cap?

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Once a cap is cracker dry, it will never grow myc. But, if the gills are intact, w/spores still clinging to then, you could scrape some gill material onto a fresh agar plate & you MIGHT get some spores to germinate. Odds are there will be some contams, as most dry caps are FAR from clean.

--------------------"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson